Disklavier

This is a strange shortcoming of such a device.  Given that the 
floppy drive has the ability to allow you to use MIDI files I don't 
understand how much more it would have taken to add the same ability 
via CD.


I did find a utility that will convert MIDI to WAV and then of course 
you can create a CD from that, but that's hardly anything to compare 
using the actual MIDI files.



--- In disklavier@yahoogroups.com, James Fry <groups@j...> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Dec 2004, sjhart110110 wrote:
> > Anyway to have my DC3A (Mark III) play midi files from a CD?  It
> > sure would be nice to burn files to CDs to play them.  Not sure 
why
> > Yamaha did not have this feature.  Certainly would save a lot of
> > diskettes!  Thanks for any info.  SJ
> 
> As other people have said, at the time this would have probably 
cost a lot 
> of money to implement, and probably wasn't really considered 
necessary (a 
> complete performance will fit on a floppy easily). For longer 
playback 
> MIDI could be used.
> 
> It is possible to get MIDI players now that take flash cards, and 
they 
> don't cost an arm and a leg. With a cheap (ie $10) card 
reader/writer you 
> could transfer midi files to a card (say 256MB) and have one hell 
of a lot 
> of music available!
> 
> Regards,
> 
> James